Building tile



June 2, 1925. 1,540,686 G. EY

BUILDING TILE Filed Feb. 14, 1925 WITNESSES G INVENTOR Mew/M 7 ATTORNEYS Patented June 2, 1925. i I V l UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

Application filed February 14, 1925. Serial No. 9,245.

To all whom it may concern. 7 Referring to the drawings by characters Be it known that I, GUSTAV Ex, a citizen of reference the tile comprises parallel verof the United States of America, and resitical sidewalls 10 and parallel vertical end dent of the city of New York, borough of walls 11 composed of a cementitious or Manhattan, in the county of New York and plastic 'material, which walls are connected State of New York, have invented a new y a horizontal integral web 12 medially of and Improved Building Tile, of which the. their height. In order to facilitate the hanfollowing is a full, clear, and exact descripdling and insure theperfect balancing and f tion. 1 equal distribution of the weight of the tile This invention relates to building tiles and by the workman laying or setting the same,

has particular reference to an improvement the web 12 is provided at one side of its lonin building tiles which are constructed of gitudinal center with a hand receiving openplastic or cementitious material. 7 V ing 13the length and width of which is sulfi- One of the principal objections to the use cient to receive therethrough the four finof large, heavy tiles has been due to the difligers of the workman'whereby the central 6 culty of handling the same especially by the portion of the web which defines the innera mason when laying or setting the tiles. The most edge of the opening 13 may be grasped. present invention therefore comprehends as From the foregoing it is obvious that this one of its principal obj ectsthe production of particulararrangement or disposition of the r 20 a building tile which isso constructed as to opening guides and insures the workmen'in g 7 provide an improved means for facilitating grasping the tile at the proper point to dis-' 7 the handling of the same. 1 tribute the weight. and balance the same.

More specifically the, invention pertains whereby itshandling is greatly facilitated. to a hollow building tile of generally'rec- I claim: V j tangular configuration including spaced ver-' 1. As a new article of manufacture a hol- 1 tical side and end walls connected by an low building tile comprising a rectangular integral central horizontal web and essenbody having an opening therethrough and tially consists in providing the web with a means for facilitating the handling of the vertical hand receiving opening disposed at, same in which said means comprises a web one side of its longitudinal center whereby centrally intersecting the opening through upon inserting the fingers within the openthe tile body, said web 'havinga handreing and grasping that portion of the web .ceivingopening therethrough atone side of adjacent the center, the tile is perfectly balits longitudinal center and intermediate its anced and its weight equally distributed to length.

by the workman. parallel side and end walls and a right an- With the aboverecited and other objects gularlydisposed medial web intersecting the 7 in view, the following specification, appendopening defined by said side and end walls,

ed claims and accompanying drawings are said web havinga hand receiving opening employed to express one example or emboditherethrough at one side of its longitudinal ment of the invention but the same'are in center whereby the central portion of the no way intended as a limitation to the scope web defining the innermost side of the hand of the invention. receiving opening affords a portion adapted In the dra'wingsto be grasped by the user whichbalances and V 45 Figure 1 is a perspective View of a buildequally distributes the weight of the tile to ing tile constructed in accordancewith one facilitate its handling. embodiment of the invention. 3. In a hollow building tile havingspaced Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional View parallel side and end walls and a right antherethrough taken approximately on the gularly disposed'medial web intersecting the line indicated at 2-2 in Fig. 1. opening defined by said side and end walls,

facilitate the laying or setting of the same 2. Ina hollow building tile having spaced V facilitate its handling, the said opening through the Web being disposed centrally of its length and constituting a means for guiding the user in grasping the tile at the proper point to cause the same to be balanced in the hand.

GUSTAV BY. 

